Maya applied hieroglyphic writing system.

玛雅人运用象形文字书写体系。

The Inca had no system of hieroglyphic writing, as the Maya did, and any portraits that Inca artists may have made of their rulers were lost.

印加人没有发明象形文字，不像玛雅人，而印加的艺术工匠即便画过君王的肖像，也已遗失殆尽。

In about 2000 B. C., early Greeks known as Minoans developed a system of picture or hieroglyphic, writing.

大约公元前2000年，早期的希腊人即弥诺斯人，发明了图画或象形文字。